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Record Nr.

UNINA9910265237603321

Autore

Ferguson Kennan <1968->

Titolo

All in the family : on community and incommensurability / / Kennan Ferguson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2012

ISBN

9786613721068

9780822395102

082239510X

9781280879753

1280879750

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 p.)

Disciplina

306.850973

Soggetti

Families - Political aspects

Democracy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Familial intensities -- The functioning family -- Communities against politics -- Silence: a politics -- I [heart] my dog -- The spaces of disability -- Familiar languages.

Sommario/riassunto

Ferguson starts with the commonplace assumption within political philosophy that the family provides the ideal model for political association. Yet families are not necessarily harmonious units. Ferguson takes up several situations to think about how familial attachments can offer insight into the creation of a pluralistic and democratic society.